NSCDC deploys 84 personnel to monitor JAMB

February 27, 2016 4:29 PM

According to him, the command deployed four officers to each of the 21 centres across the state to ensure the success of the exercise.

NSCDC officers

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Kano State said it had deployed 84 of its officers to 21 designated centres of the ongoing University Tertiary Matriculation Examination in the state.

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The Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr Ibrahim Idris, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Saturday.

``Each centre has four officers, three males and a female to monitor the exercise,” he said.

He explained that the officers were deployed to the examination centres to monitor the exercise and to provide security at the designated centres.

Idris said the officers had also been mandated to arrest any candidates found in the act of examination malpractice or fraudulent activities during the exercise.

He said the command had not received any negative report on the ongoing examination across the 21 centres.

NAN reports that no fewer than 720,470 registered candidates are expected to sit for computer based UTME in the state